- help
- Old PentiumPro multiprocessor systems had errata that could cause memory
- operations to violate the x86 ordering standard in rare cases. Enabling this
- option will attempt to work around some (but not all) occurances of
- this problem, at the cost of much heavier spinlock and memory barrier
- operations.
+ ---help---
+ Old PentiumPro multiprocessor systems had errata that could cause
+ memory operations to violate the x86 ordering standard in rare cases.
+ Enabling this option will attempt to work around some (but not all)
+ occurances of this problem, at the cost of much heavier spinlock and
+ memory barrier operations.